Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2365 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Hawaii Paroling Authority (HPA) to improve efficiency and services of the authority.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of Public Safety, HPA, and Government Efficiency Teams, Inc.

These appropriations would enhance the functioning of the HPA to enable it to fulfill its legal duties and obligations to rehabilitate parolees. Most of these appropriations would go to providing rehabilitation services to parolees upon their release from prison. The reality is that prison confinement does not serve all inmates well in terms of rehabilitation, especially when drug addiction is involved. By ensuring a parolee receives adequate and necessary rehabilitation services, recidivism would decrease along with the costs to the State in reduced crime and in building prison facilities.

Your Committee has amended this measure on recommendation of the HPA by inserting appropriation amounts.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2365, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2365, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.